single-family dwelling the opposite blocks is - on behalf of the pacific height his prime concerned is the lack of air and light it was reviewed by the residential design team and found the proposed project meets the standard guidelines and not with k350er8d or exceptional guidelines it is supportive of the design not require a firewall and provide instead provides dick assess to the rear yard therefore the department represented it not take dr that concludes my presentation. and i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> dr requester you have 5 minutes. >> thank you, commissioners i'm greg the president of pacific heights association this on jackson and pacific habitation a rear yard specific jackson is the only collaring inclusion otherwise what is required they're built beyond the limit of brown where they should be built now they want more the privacy see into the neighborhoods it has rear yard access to a lower level the neighbors are opposed the neighbors felt the rear of the yard to jackson street say nobody is going to be able to use this because of the strong winds the deck wil

the pacific, not so. they had to be back the japanese and the islands of the pacific. to beat back the japanese and the islands, you had to take your airplanes with you, to provide close air support for the marines and soldiers ashore, in addition to protecting the other ships in the fleet. since lexington is not a museum in the sense that we are not funded by an entity, like a state, city, federal government, etc. -- when you are not funded by that, you have to bring people in the door to pay the bills. and you have to make it interesting to enough people that want to come in the door. some people just might not be interested in ships, but yet they might be interested in seeing a digital 3-d movie related to ships, maybe, related to aircraft. so we have to make angst not only related to lexington, because that is the story we are trying to tell -- we are trying to tell a story about the navy in the pacific, world war ii. we have to make it interesting for the visitor that might not be as involved in history, so we put other things on board, like maybe some interactive

. >> thank you, commissioners i'm greg the president of pacific heights association this on jackson and pacific habitation a rear yard specific jackson is the only collaring inclusion otherwise what is required they're built beyond the limit of brown where they should be built now they want more the privacy see into the neighborhoods it has rear yard access to a lower level the neighbors are opposed the neighbors felt the rear of the yard to jackson street say nobody is going to be able to use this because of the strong winds the deck will not be used including a relevance contractor didn't expand into the rear yard this is a large house this haas house has an existing roof deck we need another 3 feet taken from the rear yard this place is built before the rear yard were required into what's required a rear yard an expansion y07d where that intrudes the mid block open space had been denied and the association has been around for a lot of years we have a strong feeling on the block a few neighbors are here to speak and others are here this has no good reason for expansion beyond the rear

there was a hospital ship, in from the pacific.nd that is a big new passenger ship converted to carry troops when the war broke out. those bridges? we had to army corporal's board. first mates for the locomotives. net sparks, a radio operator with an army security officer. they saw the golden gate bridge ahead. we have been led to the submarine with our navy radar signals. the pilot was on the flying bridge with the skipper. the talker is checking his telephone. he is hooked up to each of the dining stations. that is paid leg and joe on the engine. funny how he got attached to those. now the golden gate is a storm and the boat is laying to pick up the pilot. now we know we are on our own. dropping the pilot always makes you feel like you cannot drop your last line to the shore. the engineer opens the main throttle. the turbines start to turn smoothly and spin the big shaft, linking 6500 horsepower -- horsepower turbines and gaining speed. now you begin to feel the lift. this is what a ship is built for. this is why a fellow goes to

islander affairs commission supports the global pacific islander movement and the illegal trafficking and it is the chinese government who have confiscated ivory and other major chinese markets have ended ab is co-sponsored by speaker atkins and chair laura and leon no and assembly members i got wrong we thank supervisor wiener and commissioner chan for their leadership and san francisco's important support nor ab 9 of and protecting rhinos and elephants it is an clooit which i say the government has identified as an international contra costa choice and new york is been identified and by clarifying the i've very that will help to battle terry rich it is circle for terrorist groups like the michelle and other army in uganda it is increasing taking part in the lucrative that market the elephant and rhino population has declined we 50 percent and the elephant population is reduced to half of what it was more 50 thousand elephants were reduced to the second largest market in the world 1/3rd of ivory offered for sale was not - a staggering 2 thousand rhinos were purchased in africa and on

>> the pacific? >> they are still hoping that there will be some relatively easy water route leading to the pacific. if this seems far-fetched remember that jefferson in the first decade of the 19th century, they are still thinking that lewis and clark will still find a gentle auto in the center of the -- gentle plateau in the middle of the continent that they will just amble up. there will be this nice navigable river. instead, this is your moment. when lewis and clark get west of the rockies, what did they discover? idaho. one range of mountains after another. the french don't know that. they are still hoping for a relatively easy way to get to the pacific. i will talk more about that on wednesday, but they're hoping for a route for a rude to the -- for a route to the pacific and trade with asia. they are also hoping with new trading partners. they have heard rumors that there might be elaborate civilizations on the pacific coast. from what they've heard from second and third and hand fourth accoun

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there are hoping for a rude to the pacific to trade with asia. i will talk more about that on wednesday, but they're hoping for a route for a rude to the pacific and trade with asia. they are also hoping with new trading partners. they have heard rumors that there might be elaborate civilizations on the pacific coast. from what they've heard from second hand accounts, they think maybe japan and china have outpost. they think maybe there is some kind of indian civilization in the northwest. it gives rise to that kind of story, places to the farther east. anybody from british columbia washington state? you do have in the northwest big sophisticated indian towns in the pacific northwest with monumental architecture, big oceangoing canoes, fantastic sculpture, living in fantastic wealth because all they have to do is dip their hands into the water and they find to salmon. -- dose co-salmon -- plains2 salmon. when you're talking about information traveling hundreds of miles, it could set up stories or even the two rumors of other peoples in the northw

factoring in rising sea levels and changing pacific weather patterns. they think the beloved surfing spots of santa cruz could become victims of a changing climate. >> it cuts to the core. it really -- i'm serious. it really does. >> reporter: the graceful art of riding a wave depends on some complex hydrology under the boards. >> but i know some surfers can do it in a second, you know, some really good surfers could look out and tell you those are breaking one meter coming into shore. >> reporter: as we learn morsiens can predict what was once unthinkable the world famous coast of santa cruz where the perfect swells are only the stuff of legend. >> the thought of future serious issues with ocean levels rising and the disappearance of world class breaks like this, that's, um, that's just -- it's disappointing to even think about. >> elizabeth cook, kpix 5. >> if the theory holds up the decline in waves in surf city could be coupled with the creation of some big surf breaks on other parts of the pacific coast. >>> one thing is for certain they definitely

. -- is essentially the pacific. and a naval officer named charles wilks became the commander of this expedition and wilks was a relatively junior officer that he -- at the time. he had a fleet of four ships and for four years, he explore the pacific from as far north as alaska and as far south as antarctica and crisscrossing all over the ocean in between. wilks was a surveyor. most interested in mapping. if you look on maps of antarctica, you will find a wliksland, named after him as he was the first surveyor to survey several islands and a section of antarctica. unlike some more famous expeditions of natural history for example charles darwin there was no trained naturalist along with wilks, nor was there an understanding that part of the expedition was to catalog all kinds of things that were seen. so, artifacts and plants, both living and dried were collected during the four year expedition. in fact, they collected close to 10,000 dried plant specimens between 1838 and 1842 which had their own wonderful history a

pacific and that could lead to a chance of rain by the end of the week. boy, that would be welcome. 8:00 tonight, the numbers will mostly be in the low 60s. fairly mild for this time of the year. out the door, numbers tomorrow morning, sun mixed with some high clouds and temperature mostly north bay and temperatures will be ranging from the mid 40s to the mid 50s. all right, mild again for tomorrow as high pressure still is in command of the pacific, but that's going to change by the end of the week as the high gets to the south. moisture stream out in the pacific. low pressure here, the high pressure here. bringing that moisture shore into the bay area and the possibility of rain coming in by friday. in the meantime, it will be fairly mild. future cast for tomorrow shows a mostly clear night overnight. sunrise, high clouds into the north bay. then by afternoon, high clouds filter into the south bay. so we'll have more clouds tomorrow than we had today. no rain though. not tomorrow anyway. cooler on sunday. milder and dry by thursday. looks like rain is d

large specimens of tropical ferns and many other plants from the equatorial latitudes of the pacific rim. and it would've been a very exotic place. it would've been exotic in terms of architecture, gothic greenhouses were not something that were readily available are -- or found throughout the country at that time. glass houses on their own were not something that were much in the public domain at that time. and certainly these plants would have been outlandish, almost alien to temperate, eastern americans who almost certainly had not seen or traveled to the tropical environments where you would see these plants. to my right behind us is one of the very few plants that still exist from the time of the u.s. botanic garden placement upon this block of land. it is a special tree. in the old days, it was considered a type of elm. it is scientifically classified today in the elm family, but it is considered its own genus. in the latin, it means it has a leaf resembling the hornbeam. and this is a plant that was occasionally planted in the 1800's. they eventually became popular street tree

they report back that they could've seen the pacific from the top. if you know anything about the geography, that's not the case. there guides, who they know as the bow indians, received reports of rates by another group of indians that they call the snakes, probably shoshones. they want to protect it from raiders. the exploration has to be abandoned as the bow indians go back to their home. at this time, all of the indians have horses. this is two decades later, a little bit farther north. the indians that the french explorers encountered to have horses. one way that we know about the location of some of these explorations is -- this is a great map -- these french guys are optimistic that maybe they can see the pacific from the black hills. there are some french views of north america that are different than the views we have today. there are persistent rumors in the first half of the 18th century that there is some cn western north america. this is the leading geographer in france who put together the speculative image of what western north america

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heights association this on jackson and pacific habitation a rear yard specific jackson is the onlyollaring inclusion otherwise what is required they're built beyond the limit of brown where they should be built now they want more the privacy see into the neighborhoods it has rear yard access to a lower level the neighbors are opposed the neighbors felt the rear of the yard to jackson street say nobody is going to be able to use this because of the strong winds the deck will not be used

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the trans-pacific partnership. t.p.p. for short. the obama administration hopes to pass it by the end of this year. like most trade agreements the t.p.p. will lower the tariffs. you may find many its on store shelves cheaper. on the other hand the price of medication is likely to sky rocket. critics worry about the deal. melissa chan aches a look at the impact from california. >> two industries that symbolize the state of california. the trans-pacific partnership, t.p.p. a winner and the other a loser. coastal california has a fishing industry. it's challenging to be an american fisherman. england not far from the coast. it's californian wine. >> we are excited about the opportunities for tp. wine wins. japan, malaysia and vietnam. we do export. we foal that there's tremendous opportunity. california exports a fifth of its wine. industry can sell a lot more overseas. that's where the trade will come in. bringing store shelves from tokyo to kum purr. by reducing trade barriers and creating a level playing field for us so that we can

cathay pacific, -- ama cafe pacific, there to great -- their freight comes from -- >> has been weak overhe past 12 months, responsible for a bit of a sag on earnings. >> when you take a look at the opportunities, look at air freight growth in the united states. the three big ports on the west coast, productivity down as much as half since may. san francisco, seattle, the largest gains are in major u.s. airports. l.a. climbs 10%. there is opportunity for airlines to take advantage. >> let's take a look at how long the dispute could go on. >> it won't be a quick or easy process overall. experts say it could take three months. airlines could benefit if airlines manage things well, it could boost revenue and margins. >> thanks yvonne. after the break, the latest private enterprise hit by a problem. spacex delayed the launch of falcon nine because of a glitch in the radar tracking system. another blow to spacex after last month's failed attempt to land a rocket booster on a floating barge. they will try another launch later. coming up, turnaround time after trans asia delayed new safety rules

how do you understand as a prospective secretary of defense, the rebalancing to the asia pacific will actually work? and can we afford to move resources from -- from europe and the middle east to the asia pacific, given the circumstances that we see today in 2015? >> thank you. thank you for that question. the rebalance to the asia pacific region as the term goes is, in my eyes, a commitment to continue the pivotal american military role in the asia pacific theater which has kept peace and stability there for decades now. it has been that american underwritten peace and stability in a region where there's still many historical animosities, and unhealed wounds of the past it is that stability underwritten by the united states that has allowed the japanese miracle and the south korean miracle, and the southeast asian miracle, and today the chinese and indian miracle. it is thanks to us that that environment has been created. and in a sentence i think the rebalance is a commitment to keep that going. now you asked can we do that? and keep our commitments in the middle east, and to europe

the storm is up in the pacific northwest.n its tail riding that jet stream is the next storm that will spread the wind and the rain beginning first in the north bay then the rest of the area the rest of the day. around sunrise, 7, 8, 9 a.m. we really get hit. but then it moves fairly rapidly and we go to the more popcorn shower activity here and there popping up especially in the higher terrain potential too for thunderstorms with this. so in the headlines, rain spreads south, gusty winds, afternoon thunderstorms at least a chance of them, then the showers end on monday. next week looks mostly dry. overnight lows tonight will be in the mid-50s. sunrise tomorrow morning 7:07 a.m. and the temperatures are not the big story. readings ranging mostly from the low to mid-60s in the bay area tomorrow. in the five-day forecast, we have rain sunday, maybe a lingering shower on monday before we begin to clear it out. and then tuesday, wednesday, thursday right into the weekend nothing but sun and temperatures warming into the 70-degree

lack of a knife at 8:00 eastern -- sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific. >> each week american history tv american artifacts is it museums and historic places established by congress in 1820, the united states botanic garden itself is garden in america. next, we will take a two or -- tour and learn about the collections of the plant museum originally proposed by washington in 1776. >> welcome to the united states spoke in article garden. -- botanic garden. >> my name is ari novy. i am the executive director of the united states botanic garden. we are standing on union square, which is the end cap of the national mall on the east side just before you arrive at the united states capital. i will introduce you to the stars and the other wonderful plants that we have here today. we are standing in a room called the garden court. i was like to orient people when we come in. one of the most important elements are those that you see here in the front. very prominently displayed. the first thing you see when you walk into the botanic gardens. they represent a part of that historical collection.

must lead in setting trade rules in the asia pacific region.nd he says the trans-pacific partnership free trade agreement is a way to do this. the president discusses these issues in his annual economic report to congress. 12 countries, including the u.s. and japan, are negotiating the tpp. the report notes that the asia pacific region's growing middle class is an important market for expanding u.s. exports. it says comprehensive trade agreements like the tpp offer the u.s. a way to shape the rules of globalization in the bestnterests of american workers and firms. the report warns that failure to secure a tpp agreement will allow other countries to set global trade rules that would likely be adverse to u.s. interests. >>> china's lenovo the world's largest pcmaker, has admitted shipping laptops preinstalled with controversial software. cybersecurity experts say the software could make information on laptops vulnerable to hackers. officials at lenovo group say that between september and december last year the firm shipped worldwide more than 40

a lot more to come at al jazeera, inc including which are the winners and the losers in the trans pacificership. and we are on the run in nepal to be the race champion of trail running. ♪ >> start with one issue. add guests from all sides of the debate and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get the inside story. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". next. only on al jazeera america. ♪ hello and let's look at the top stories at al jazeera, attack on shia mosque in pakistan killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 50 it happened during friday prayers in peshawar when three suicide bombers detonated explosives. al jazeera journalist mohamed and fahmy are at home with their families and spent 412 days in detention in egypt, their retrial on charges of colluding with the banned muslim brotherhood is expected to resume in ten days. boko haram fighters have launched attack in chad from their stronghold in neighboring nigeria, several people were killed when fighters crossed lake chad in canoes to attack the town there. the indian government has asked the united states to i

. >>> for years we've been told stop eating so much pacific bluefin tuna. it's disappearing from the ocean. tonight what some bay area scientists are doing to change that. >> reporter: in the san francisco bay area no matter how you slice it we're wild about raw fish, for sushi and tashimi lovers, the most prized and pricey cut is the tender red belly of the pacific bluefin tuna, but the problem, we love this fish so much we're eating it into extinct. >> there's no way that we can continue to hunt tuna in our ocean. this practice has to stop. >> reporter: now some scientists are fishing for a solution. >> do we want tunas in our seas or markets? i believe it's possible to have both. >> reporter: stanford professor barbara block pioneered the tagging and tracking of bluefin tuna in the wild. it unlocked the mysteries of where these fish feed and breed. >> before us mankind really didn't know where tunas went. we've seen tunas go back and forth across the pacific in as little as a few months. >> reporter: she hopes to take the pressure off wild tuna by gettin

>>erica: the showers for chanel to the pacific grouping around the pacific northwest timber to still trending above average is a pretty warm system where i expected too much in the wake of snow for towel. we're back in the seventh is the internet's wednesday more details, killed in just a moment her alive look at the bay bridge toll plaza of again like condition for that westbound truck no problems on the stand drive times is 13 minutes between 88101. the golden sabers of boundless good as did a live look at the richmond center fell risk pretty clear conditions. >>erica: we do have accidents involving a car and a big rig no information to talk about but this is also affected are heading into the san mateo bridge according to licensers and is not plans just yet. >>james: these lines exactly what happened perry >>reporter: and a mother, who got involved is carol carol says that she had just jumped to her truck after it died on tuesday morning was to try to recharge the battery she heard one of our neighbors come running out of her home screaming that someone has broken into her home an

the pacific, not so. they had to be back the japanese and the islands of the pacific.o beat back the japanese and the islands, you had to take your airplanes with you, to provide close air support for the marines and soldiers ashore, in addition to protecting the other ships in the fleet. since lexington is not a museum in the sense that we are not funded by an entity, like a state, city, federal government, etc. -- when you are not funded by that, you have to bring people in the door to pay the bills. and you have to make it interesting to enough people that want to come in the door. some people just might not be interested in ships, but yet they might be interested in seeing a digital 3-d movie related to ships, maybe, related to aircraft. so we have to make angst not only related to lexington, because that is the story we are trying to tell -- we are trying to tell a story about the navy in the pacific, world war ii. we have to make it interesting for the visitor that might not be as involved in history, so we put other things on board, like maybe some interactive g

and feinstein it exteriors july 1st of 2015 we're talking about the relationship we'll have with pacific gas and protect we don't own the distribution system like hunters point or treasure island but bringing power to this this is pacific gas and electric they own the systems and there's tariffs for the transmission system we've been attempting to negotiate with the new agreement the whole greater world this is a changed tennis or since 987 we asked them for what we call with wholesale service agreement in november of 2013 we had an impasse on the terms and conditions not arguing over the rates those are set two the regulatory condition but under what conditions to serve the customers in the future it's important to know because of the impasse while at the federal rates in october last year the containment of pacific gas and electric a that's heightened the terms and conditions under which we've serve our customers and they filed in december a interpretation of the interconnection this is part of the procedural matter it means they'd the first time to get the drafts and had some of the t

a class atmospheric refer over the eastern pacific ocean with generally integrated water vapors alongorridor making landfall right in the bay area in california. >> december 11th, 2014, watching in realtime as a massive storm hits california. >> we were trying to actually see how different sources of particles ceded the clouds and affected whether they rained or snowed or sat there. >> climate scientists at scrips institution of oceanography are investigating something that's tiny but a huge part of the puzzle. >> the largest uncertainty is how aerosols form clouds and interact in clouds. the study we are doing, we will be able to fly out over the ocean and see where they are mixing and how this is ending up leading to more precipitation over california. >> we are in the wet lab, preparing for a field study, what we are doing right now is cleaning vials for our precipitation sachler, which we will use to collect rain samples until you use the samples to determine what ceded the clouds that made that rain. >> cloud seed something where we intentionally as humans go to try to modify the

questions about national security threats and military policy, afghanistan, iraq, eastern europe and the pacific. for more about the confirmation process, we spoke with leo shane earlier today. host: leo shane covers congress for "the military times." how is he regarded? >> a lot of members of the armed services committee said they did not see this as a focus on his credentials. they see this hearing is more of a chance to criticize obama on a number of national security issues. >> it sounded like chairman mccain and ashton carter, the nominee, were in agreement and terms of getting rid of the sequester, the pentagon spending caps. how will they go about doing that? >> that is the big question. you heard senator mccain. they said they will hammer that this year, the mandatory spending cuts expected to go into effect in fiscal 2016. they are concerned that that can cripple the military. but as of now, we haven't seen much of an alternative land, just a bunch of thomas is that they need to get rid of this. the military absolutely needs to have that money. we heard more of that today. carter thinks

on highway 1 in pacific up. the flapping piece of metal look like it could blow often heard someone on that heavily trafficked street or highway. and now the croats had to repair the street sign one of many in san bruno. this snake lane signed in and of dangling by one bracket on the other side snap in a when crew told us some corroded hard way gave way corroded are aware >> pam: university of california on wall start announced today that they will soon require all incoming students to be vaccinated for measles as well as mulch, rubella and chicken pox and other illnesses. this comes during our current nationwide outbreak of measles which has left more than 100 people ill including many here in california the requirement will be implemented over time it will take full effect in 2017 that francisco general hospital will slow to be renamed after facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and his wife. following a $75 million grant from the couple. the money will help fund hospitals in new acute-care and trauma center apps that'